Bugging Out ?

[tigs]

dont be you should see the bills we had to pay!! and we still have things to do !!

[TwoDo]

Within my stashes I've been growing a steady supply of seeds that can reproduce after their first planting and survive well with cold weather.

I do that too. Turns out seed saving is an extremely fascinating hobby as well as practical from a prepping point of view.

I've started stocking up on building materials (nails wood and such) after reading someone else's survival blog as these are items overlooked by preppers and are useful after SHTF.

Also me too. I have a very large collection (maybe 50 jars) of screws and bolts of different sizes and lengths. Every time I go to B+Q I always check the sale bins. Often they are getting rid of end-of-line items that you can pick up for a nominal sum. Drives the wife mad, having to wait, while I root around in those bins.

[Triple_sod]

bugging outs not really an option for us but thats ok , 7 years ago we bought a small farm that had been deserted since 1986, its in a secluded and hard to find location but close to town , its made secluded by a motorway that cut the only road to the property when it was built , the only way on to the proprerty is via a slip road and bridge . since buying the property we have added a sewage digester with soakaway system, a water bore hole, a ground source heat pump and most recently Photovoltaic system after our aging diesel generator packed up for good , we have quite a large vegtable patch , chickens, geese , 4 goats and a couple of pigs so we are not bad off for food and i guess will be a lot better off than most people if shtf

Definitely mate, that’s like a perfect example of the long term solution.

[tigs]

its far from perfect , but its getting there , we have only had live stock for just under a year and are still learning and there is loads to do still .

[bulldogeagle]

bugging outs not really an option for us but thats ok , 7 years ago we bought a small farm that had been deserted since 1986, its in a secluded and hard to find location but close to town , its made secluded by a motorway that cut the only road to the property when it was built , the only way on to the proprerty is via a slip road and bridge . since buying the property we have added a sewage digester with soakaway system, a water bore hole, a ground source heat pump and most recently Photovoltaic system after our aging diesel generator packed up for good , we have quite a large vegtable patch , chickens, geese , 4 goats and a couple of pigs so we are not bad off for food and i guess will be a lot better off than most people if shtf

Definitely mate, that’s like a perfect example of the long term solution.

i dont want to be secluded by a motorway!! (err.......M1???)

[Triple_sod]

Ah I meant like the whole idea of getting out now while the goings relatively good,

The big problem I find with ‘bugging out’ is, then what do you do?

Can’t imagine running off to some hide away, only to emerge a couple of months later....heading straight for the refugee camp..

Likewise if things do 'settle back to normal', you go back to find the house has been gutted.

[lasttruebreed]

I'm jealous tigs as other people have said your in a position that most preppers would love to be. I've got most things that i can prepare sorted at my primary bug out, but as far as meat goes I'd have to either hunt deer, rabbits and the like or try and round up loose animals from nearby forgotten farms. My biggest worry about bugging out is when.

[tigs]

bugging outs not really an option for us but thats ok , 7 years ago we bought a small farm that had been deserted since 1986, its in a secluded and hard to find location but close to town , its made secluded by a motorway that cut the only road to the property when it was built , the only way on to the proprerty is via a slip road and bridge . since buying the property we have added a sewage digester with soakaway system, a water bore hole, a ground source heat pump and most recently Photovoltaic system after our aging diesel generator packed up for good , we have quite a large vegtable patch , chickens, geese , 4 goats and a couple of pigs so we are not bad off for food and i guess will be a lot better off than most people if shtf

Definitely mate, that’s like a perfect example of the long term solution.

i dont want to be secluded by a motorway!! (err.......M1???)

you dont notice the motorway at all the banks and wood cut the noise out, and unless you know what to look for the road onto our place is really easily miss ! when we where buying it we had to call the easte agent and have him meet us to find it

I'm jealous tigs as other people have said your in a position that most preppers would love to be. I've got most things that i can prepare sorted at my primary bug out, but as far as meat goes I'd have to either hunt deer, rabbits and the like or try and round up loose animals from nearby forgotten farms. My biggest worry about bugging out is when.

i still hunt rabbits we had a problem with them attacking our veggies , its nice pay back when you sit down to a rabbit stew lol

[Delightful]

bugging outs not really an option for us but thats ok , 7 years ago we bought a small farm that had been deserted since 1986, its in a secluded and hard to find location but close to town , its made secluded by a motorway that cut the only road to the property when it was built , the only way on to the proprerty is via a slip road and bridge . since buying the property we have added a sewage digester with soakaway system, a water bore hole, a ground source heat pump and most recently Photovoltaic system after our aging diesel generator packed up for good , we have quite a large vegtable patch , chickens, geese , 4 goats and a couple of pigs so we are not bad off for food and i guess will be a lot better off than most people if shtf

Sounds like a dream position to be in. It's so hard to find places like that in the last few years, everything has been developed I'm hoping more land and farms will be up for sale next year though.
Where did you find it? Usual estate agent or classifieds? I've heard about checking local and farming classifieds for land and farms.

[Arzosah]

As far as meat/portable protein goes, *trapping* some wild rabbits, and then breeding them, might be a possibility ... guinea pigs are a meat item in South America ... chickens ... in a true apocalyptic scenario, what about fox meat to feed the dogs? Or dogs (I've just finished reading One Second After) ... fish (think of all the goldfish!) ... but all those are really for after the immediate collapse. For a while your protein might be beansprouts and UHT tofu Seen a bit in the news about insects recently too I think I'll stay vegetarian.

Tigs, I'm glad to hear your access is hard to find - that slip roads sounds like its very accessible - in that true apocalyptic scenario, what would concern me, even in a hard to find place, is the noise that the animals might make, which without the background of traffic etc would sometimes be very audible, for some species.